Political Ground Hog Day

In the comedy, Ground Hog Day, comedian Bill Murray portrays a local weather reporter who gets caught in an almost endless cycle of repeating the same day until he gets it right.  Many of the things our country is doing  strongly resembles the same futility found in the film.

It seems we went through the same frustrating dance on health care several years back, only now Hillary is the Secretary of State, and Bill is a full time play boy.   Obama’s poll numbers are slipping and the democrats are in a rush to pass a health care plan, any government health care plan.  The urgency is found in the number of  democrats who are jumping ship as they become aware that there is not a clear cut plan.

Sensing weakness,  radical leaders of rogue nations are pushing the envelope as they sense that our president is naively idealistic and militarily soft.  Iran, Afghanistan, Korea, and who is next in the lineup to “test” Obama’s resolve?  His own Vice President predicted a testing.  We’ve been down this road before.  Castro sensed weakness in John Kennedy and it almost resulted in a nuclear shootout. 

Obama is also reminiscent of Jimmy Carter, one of the worst presidents in known history.  Terrorists and dictators can smell weakness.  It is  no accident that minutes after Ronald Reagan was sworn in as President, the hostages were released.  Like Carter, Obama’s laid back style of reasoning with the unreasonable will result in a foreign policy fiasco that will set the stage for yet another strong conservative leader like Reagan to take the stage.   And let’s not forget that it was Reagan’s no-nonsense policies that brought down  the Iron Curtain and all but eliminated communism as we knew it.

If we are forced to re-live history, let’s hope and pray that we get it right this time.  Obama may just turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to the Republican party.